HDD dead too much costs invovled to retrieve .veg files.

What do you as a viewer when you read and suggest I should do? There are approximately 15 .veg projects saved on that HDD.Not the actual raw files themselves,I have those all.I'm a hardcore editor so please understand that before you ask any stupid questions.Reason being that to send the HDD to a Recovery Data Warehouse is too much $$$$$$$$$.Each .veg file on my HDD is projects worth $15,000 USD.

How complex are the projects? How long would it take to do them again? You have a copy of the finished video, so it should be simple to use that as a guide to re do the project and consider it a punishment for not backing up the project files.

What do you as a viewer when you read and suggest I should do? There are approximately 15 .veg projects saved on that HDD.Not the actual raw files themselves,I have those all.I'm a hardcore editor so please understand that before you ask any stupid questions.Reason being that to send the HDD to a Recovery Data Warehouse is too much $$$$$$$$$.Each .veg file on my HDD is projects worth $15,000 USD.

If you can see your malfunctioning HDD in DOS, there is a free program called GetDataBack which does wonders. Last year I accidently formated a HDD that had all my RAW video on it and this program got them all back although it took 4 days to do it.

.....How can old projects be worth $15K?!?
Surely you make them, you hand them to client, you get paid and then you make a new one if client comes back!

But that aside, if EACH project file is worth that much, you'd be crazy not to send it off to a recovery warehouse for the professionals to retrieve your data intact!

I understand the authors frustration after your response. Can you see the reason why?
He needs an answer to his problem and you are making it worse. He does not want to send it to a recovery house for whatever the reasons. Do you have an answer to his problem? If you don't, why the comments? Members on forums use PM for off-topic inquieries.

@admins
I think you missed the point because he expected you to warn Bpotter908, this isn't his first time with off-topic comments.